Black silhouette tattoo of small flying figures trailing from the ankle across the top of a foot, with a denim jeans cuff visible above.

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Flying silhouette figures trailing across an ankle

Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A photograph of a tattoo on the ankle and foot, showing a series of solid black silhouetted figures in mid-flight that step down in size from the ankle towards the top of the foot. The figures are rendered as flat black shapes with no interior detail or shading, against pale skin. The image is in colour with a plain, slightly blurred background, and the denim cuff and a dark shoe edge frame the lower part of the shot.

Ankle Silhouette Flying figure Figure Foot Ankle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The canvas had faded to the colour of weak tea, and through the seam above the rigging Mags could see a slot of pale sky where the stitching had given up in March. Ray stood at the flap of the ring counting heads. Eleven, he said, then a boy in a cap who had come back twice, then nothing worth the counting. The wagons were already hitched in the lane behind the lorry park, and a man from the scrap yard had left a card tucked under the wiper of the cab.

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The act had always been simple on paper. Three flyers on one bar, each letting go a beat after the last, so that from the top of the rake they dropped down the air like swifts coming off a telegraph wire. Abel had caught for nineteen years until his hip stopped him in January. The new catcher, a lad from Doncaster who could not stop talking, kept missing the timing by a breath. Tosh, the terrier, rode the final swing in a leather harness Mags had stitched herself, and he never once looked down.

That last night the boy in the cap stood on his seat and shouted, "Again," and Ray, for once, nodded. They went up. Mags let go last and felt the air take her, and for three seconds the whole tent went as quiet as a held breath. Tosh landed in the net with his ears inside out. The lad from Doncaster caught the wrong hand, and they all tumbled into the sawdust together, laughing until Abel started laughing too.

Afterwards she sat on the lorry step with a stick of chalk and drew the act on the grey side of the caravan: four small figures, each one stepping down from the one above, the dog tucked in at the bottom. Above them she left a clean space where the catch should go. It was the only part nobody had asked her to finish.